Japan May 2019 Sharing

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Day 4 - 14th May

Next, went to Tempura Fukamachi in Kyobashi

https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1302/A130202/13004105/

 

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Day 4 - 14th May

Next to Ueno for Ameyoko and Tokyo National Museum

 

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Day 4 - 14th May

Tokyo National Museum







Special Exhibition about Toji.
Toji is famous temple in Kyoto which i visited many times.


No photography for most of the exhibits except this part


Next, Went to Tokyo Dome for Baseball



Godzilla with Giants Cheerleaders

 

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Warmup. Giants. Did not take much photo

Next, went to Jambo Hanare
https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1310/A131004/13160962/

 

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Giants Jersey

 

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Day 5 - 15th May

Whole day spent watching Sumo at Ryogoku Kokugikan





Started early



Most people only watch the last 2 hours of the day (4-6pm) where matches are between higher ranking rikishi

However, the whole sumo tournament is much earlier starting 8-9am

Went outside a bit after a while





Queued for Chanko ****. Daily food for Rikishi

 

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Eating Ryogoku famous Yakitori







View from seat. I got Masu A which is box seat for 4 pax. A bit expensive and the view was still okay





Bento

 

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Yokozuna entrance ceremony



Full house



Dinner at Salone Tokyo
https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1301/A130102/13218266/





Newly opened last year



They have other branches in Yokohama and Osaka. Italian food

 

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The ticket

around 12k per pax and 48k for the seat.
But then because it is hard to get ticket, need to pay some agent around 20k... so in the end cost quite a bit. $800-900 for one day

 

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Day 6 - 16th May

Start day early at Tsukiji Market

 

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Tamagoyaki for lunch

 

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Day 6 - 16th May

Next, Visited Edo Tokyo Museum (First time).
Space ship looking building and is next to Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo stadium





Can see the sumo stadium







This museum is mostly talking about Edo which is the old name of Tokyo.
History etc and life of the old Edo

 

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The last olympic 1964 in Tokyo

 

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To Sumo again


Another Chanko **** for lunch





This time i got Chair Seat, much cheaper around $100. but view is so far away

 

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Day 6 - 16th May



Super far....Box seat is better but much expensive
The best seat is ringside seat but then hard to get


Yokozuna Entry Ceremony